Eddie Van Halen Quotes

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And then it progressed from that to classical guitar and drums and oboe.

I had no musical training at all.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved to sing.

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical music like every day.

I studied classical piano from the time I was 4 through my first year of college.

I played piano, flute, and guitar.

I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.

Growing up, I was so involved in music in different ways, be it taking piano lessons or guitar lessons. As a listener, I was always so inspired.

I've no real musical training, although I took some piano lessons a while ago.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I got a lot of knowledge about everything from classical music to jazz to musicals.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.